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Touching controls should disable autopilot - what's not reasonable is the car failing to apply the emergency brakes to avoid an upcoming collision, regardless o

• gus_massa 10y ago
  Disabling autopilot can also be dangerous. Perhaps someone in the future puts the autopilot in a highway at 100mph, and few minutes later one kids plays with the manual brake ... There was a similar accident in Aeroflot Flight 593 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593 > With the autopilot active, Kudrinsky, against regulations, let the children sit at the controls. First his daughter Yana took the pilot's left front seat. Kudrinsky adjusted the autopilot's heading to give her the impression that she was turning the plane, though she actually had no control of the aircraft. Shortly thereafter Eldar occupied the pilot's seat.[4] Unlike his sister, Eldar applied enough force to the control column to contradict the autopilot for 30 seconds. This caused the flight computer to switch the plane's ailerons to manual control while maintaining control over the other flight systems. A silent indicator light came on to alert the pilots to this partial disengagement. The pilots, who had previously flown Russian-designed planes which had audible warning signals, apparently failed to notice it. Aeroflot Flight 593 Crash Animation + CVR : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrttTR8e8-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrttTR8e8-4